External Financial Governance in Migration

• Chair: Lilian Tsourdi (University of Maastricht)
• Solidarity and Externalisation of Migration Control through EU Funding: A Research Agenda by Lilian Tsourdi (University of Maastricht) 

• More than just Money: Assessing Change in EU funds for Migration since 2000 by 

  Federica Zardo (Danube University Krems)

• Follow the Money IV: The use of AMIF and ISF-BV funds outside the EU - by UNHCR and ECRE. Estela Casajuana was commissioned to complete the report. 

Critical Perspectives on the EU’s Trust Fund for Africa

• Chair: Federica Zardo, Danube University Krems

• Capitalizing on A Crisis: The European Union Trust Fund for Africa by Darshan Vigneswaran (University of Amsterdam); Nora Söderberg (European University Institute); Natalie Welfens (Hertie School) and Saskia Bonjour (University of Amsterdam)

• Memoranda of Understanding and the Governance of Migration in the EUTF by 

  Joseph Trawicki Anderson (University of Gothenburg)

• Seeking Legitimacy through Knowledge Production: The Politics of Monitoring and Evaluation of the EU Trust Fund for Africa by 

  Natalie Welfens (Hertie School) & Saskia Bonjour (University of Amsterdam)

• Governing Migration through Development: An Analysis of Soft EU Border Externalization Practices in Libya by 

  Agnese Pacciardi (Lund University, Sweden) 

Steering Policy Implementation through EU funding

• Chair: Alberto-Horst Neidhardt (European Policy Centre)  
• The Conditionality-Compensation Nexus in Third-Country Cooperation on Migration with the EU by Elaine Lebon-McGregor (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University); Marie Godin, (University of Oxford); Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (Peace Research Institute Oslo) & Niels Ike (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University)
• Terrain of contestation: Complicating the role of aid in border diplomacy between Europe and Morocco by Lorena Gazzotti (Lucy Cavendish College and CRASSH, University of Cambridge)
• Financing Externalization: The Role that EU Funds Play in Shaping the Turkish Asylum and Migration Policies by Orçun Ulusoy (VU Amsterdam) & Meltem Ineli Ciger, (Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey)

Migration Management and Solidarity through EU Funding: Focus on Afghanistan  

• Chair: Lilian Tsourdi (University of Maastricht)
• Presentation of NWO Hestia research findings by Nasrat Sayed (University of Maastricht)  
• Comments by Hameed Hakimi (Chatham House, London)   

Transparency and Accountability in External Migration Funding

• Chair: Mariolina Eliantonio (University of Maastricht)
• Financial Governance and Irresponsibilisation in EU Migration Control by Valentina Azarova (Manchester International Law Centre, University of Manchester) and de:border | migration justice collective and Emergent Justice Collective (United Kingdom)
• Funding of the External Dimension of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum by Iris Goldner Lang (University of Zagreb)
• Migration Management Clientelism in External Action Spending: Assessing Accountability in the Shared Implementation of Funds by Michele Gigli (European University Institute)
• Challenging the EU's Financial Support to the Libyan Coast Guard: any Room for the Principle of Good Administration? by Andreina De Leo (University of Maastricht)

Funding, Financialisation and Solidarity in Migration

• Chair: Federica Zardo (Danube University Krems)
• Leveraging the Governance of Migration through Financing: The Unspoken by Jean-Pierre Cassarino (University of Tuscia & College of Europe)
• ‘Complementary’ Pathways and Refugee Finance in the EU: From Fleeing Persecution to the Refugee Entrepreneur by Daria Davitti (Lund University) & Zvezda Vankova (Lund University)
• Migration, Development and the Expansion of Private Capital to Tunisia by Alexander Jung (University of Gothenburg)

Closing 
by Lilian Tsourdi & Nasrat Sayed (University of Maastricht)